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Chapter 392 Fierce Battle, Meteor, The Appearance of the Little Nian Beast (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

A few minutes ago, at Haifan Mountain.

On the cliff, the Sky Wolf donned a demonic crown, making it more like a king than any other king.

It spread its pair of sky-covering bone wings, and then carried the Nian Beast King and the eight demons of the Zodiac Team from the cliffs of Haifan Mountain to the Night Moon.

A sudden, fierce gust of wind swept down, traversing the wilderness. Bathed in the bright moonlight, the Wolf of Daylight slowly descended to the ground.

A moment later, the demons landed on the back of the White Wolf and stood a kilometer away from the walls of Sea Sail City, looking up at the massive city wall.

The wall in front of us is hundreds of meters high and thousands of meters long, stretching across the wilderness at the foot of Haifan Mountain and ending at the sea.

At this moment, the clear light of the full moon, like a tide, spilled over from a corner of the horizon, enveloping the magnificent city walls.

The city wall was started a year after the war ten years ago. At that time, the Lake Hunter Clan organized many local and foreign exorcists to complete it within the stipulated time.

The entire project took two months to complete, in order to prevent the Nian Beast King from launching a second attack on the city in due course. Ten years later, on August 23, 2020, it finally played its due role.

"superior……"

At the command of the Nian Beast King, the members of the Zodiac Team quickly dispersed and approached the four corners of the wall.

They understood that they were on the attacking side. If the Lake Hunters wanted to keep them completely outside the city walls, they had to split into four groups—only by doing so could they lure the four Lake Hunters away and then defeat them one by one.

If the four Lake Hunters were to gather together, they would have no chance to take advantage of them. Every one of the Lake Hunters of this generation is a monster, unprecedented and unparalleled.

In the distance, within the city of Sea Sail, stands a massive, dark cauldron, its body adorned with nine magnificent ancient dragons. At this moment, the four members of the Lake Hunters are standing at the edge of the cauldron's mouth.

“Let’s go, Nine Crows, Wu Jiu, A Hui. It seems they plan to attack the city separately. Well then, let’s do as they wish and fight them separately. I’ll go and guard the Great Khan. The rest is up to you.” Lin Xing Shi exhaled, his fiery red braid fluttering in the wind.

Zhong Wujiu nodded silently, his black coat billowing and rustling in the night wind.

"Understood, boss." Zhuge Hui waved his folding fan, a faint smile on his lips.

"It's your birthday tomorrow, so get this over with quickly," Zhou Jiuya said to Lin Xingshi with a cold snort.

Lin Xingshi was taken aback: "I had forgotten about it if you hadn't mentioned it."

"Let's go." Zhou Jiuya said, putting his hands into the pockets of his Zhongshan suit, and at the same time putting the "Nine Dragons Cauldron" used for defending the city back into the Tonggu Compass.

As the mouth of the giant cauldron beneath their feet disappeared, the four hunters immediately plummeted from the sky above the city.

Soon, their figures disappeared into the night, and they scattered to guard the outer perimeter of Haifan City—Lin Xingshi guarded the central city gate, while the other three were scattered to guard the other three corners of the city wall.

The city gate faces northwest.

Zhou Jiuya stepped on the massive city wall, seemingly ignoring gravity, and walked horizontally upwards step by step until he reached the top of the wall.

With a slight leap, he landed atop the towering, iron-blue wall that resembled a giant, and then silently looked up.

At that moment, a mouse the size of a palm was seen carrying a chicken of the same size on its back, running on all fours across the land outside the city walls.

The former is the Rat Demon, its body shrouded in black shadows, while the latter is the Divine Rooster Demon, with tail feathers as beautiful as a peacock's. At this moment, the two are rushing towards the city wall at an extremely fast speed. Their appearance may seem less than that of livestock, but their abilities are not to be underestimated. They are both indispensable members of the Zodiac Team.

The "Rat Demon's" ability is to drastically enlarge or shrink an object. Thus, it turned the bulky "Gluttonous Demon" into a small ball of flesh, which it held in its paws.

At this moment, it raised its head and looked down at the man in a Zhongshan suit standing on top of the wall.

"Can we do it, old hen?" the Rat Demon chuckled.

"Caw caw." The Divine Rooster Demon raised its comb in response.

Zhou Jiuya stood with his hands in the pockets of his Zhongshan suit, his face stern. He looked down at the Rat Demon crawling rapidly towards him from the ground and couldn't help but frown slightly.

"They actually sent a rat and a chicken to compete with me. They've been damned and underestimated."

As he spoke, Zhou Jiuya summoned the Sky Chaser, and the "Ancient Compass" suddenly rose from above his head.

Immediately, massive bronze pillars rained down from the sky, crashing onto the earth like missiles, blocking the path of the Rat Demon while simultaneously attacking it.

This behavior was like shooting a sheep with a rocket launcher. But Zhou Jiuya was completely enraged and didn't care about any of that.

"Boom... Boom..." The whole world was engulfed in deafening roars as bronze pillars crashed into the ground one after another, scattering clods of earth and grass clippings everywhere. In the blink of an eye, the earth was riddled with holes, and long, narrow craters appeared one after another.

"Oh no, oh no..." The Rat Demon ran with all its might, dodging the oncoming bronze pillars with its agile body while throwing the rotten lump of flesh it was holding in its claws forward.

In the next instant, the lump of rotten flesh swirled and magnified countless times in mid-air. The Gluttonous Demon's body was exposed to the moonlight. It was composed entirely of piles of rotten flesh and had a hideous face with distorted features.

"Huh?" Zhou Jiuya looked at the Gluttony Demon and tilted his head. "The Seven Deadly Sins, where did that come from... Is that rat's ability to shrink other demons? No wonder I didn't see it."

The Gluttonous Demon raised its head to look at the sky, its mouth suddenly opening and expanding countless times in an instant. Then, a violent suction force came from its abyss-like throat, sucking all the pillars that were crashing down on it into its mouth.

This is the power of "Gluttony," one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Its stomach can hold an entire city, and a few bronze pillars are nothing to it.

This also opened a path for the Rat Demon. If it had been a second later, the rushing Rat would have been bombarded by the bronze pillar and turned into a lump of mud.

At this moment, the Gluttonous Demon absorbed a large amount of bronze pillars, and its body continued to expand. Clumps of rotting flesh dripping with pus expanded outwards, covering an area of ​​a hundred meters in radius, like a sea of ​​decaying flesh.

"Help me draw some fire, you outsider."

The Rat Demon secretly breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at the Gluttonous Demon, and continued running towards Zhou Jiuya.

The next instant, the Gluttonous Demon suddenly lowered its head and opened its mouth towards Zhou Jiuya.

"Roar—!" Countless bronze pillars erupted from its mouth, spewing out foul-smelling gastric juices that swept towards Zhou Jiuya in a devastating onslaught. A stench-filled gust of wind swept across Zhou Jiuya's face.

“It’s filthy…” he frowned. “That’s why I hate demons.”

With a flash of the Tonggu Compass, a silk scroll five meters long suddenly appeared in front of Zhou Jiuya and swiftly unfurled.

"Along the River During the Qingming Festival," created by a Northern Song painter in the 12th century, is known as the "Encyclopedia of Northern Song Society," depicting the prosperous scene and daily life of Bianjing (Kaifeng) during the Northern Song Dynasty.

The moonlight illuminates the painting, and the brushstrokes, powerful enough to transcend time, depict a scene that is both beautiful and prosperous.

At this very moment, the long scroll suspended in mid-air is displaying the countryside, rivers, and streets of Bianjing—

Farmhouses nestled among budding leaves in the woods, the fields just beginning to turn green. Crowds of people heading to the market, along with mules and horses laden with goods, made their way into the city along the paths. An arched bridge spanned the river like a rainbow. The bridge teemed with pedestrians and carriages. Stalls lined the riverbanks, along with taverns and teahouses, adorned with colorful pavilions and gates. Inside the city, the streets were bustling, and the city walls stood majestically. The streets crisscrossed, shops stood shoulder to shoulder, and pedestrians jostled for space.

The next moment, the bronze pillars spewed out by the Gluttonous Demon were all incorporated into the long scroll of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival".

In the painting, massive bronze pillars plummeted into the river beside the Rainbow Bridge, causing pedestrians on the bridge to scream and scatter in all directions; in the city, decorated buildings were leveled by the falling pillars, and merchants knelt on the ground, trembling, shouting, "It's divine retribution!"

Before long, Zhou Jiuya used "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" to absorb all the bronze pillars that the Gluttony Demon had spat out.

“You filthy thing, don’t wander around in front of me,” he said coldly.

As soon as he finished speaking, the colossal Nine-Dragon Cauldron suddenly descended from the sky, accompanied by howling air and flying sparks, and slammed into the Gluttonous Demon.

The Gluttonous Demon was instantly crushed into ashes, its rotten flesh scattering everywhere. Its body, as if run over by a steamroller, spread out in the bottomless crater, turning into a pool of blood.

"You'll stuff yourself to death, you idiot."

Zhou Jiuya spoke coldly, putting away the Nine Dragon Cauldron once more. At this moment, the Rat Demon sacrificed the Gluttony Demon, gaining an opportunity to get close to Zhou Jiuya.

"Hey, Gluttony Bro, even though you're a foreign devil, I'll remember you."

As the rat spoke, it carried the Divine Chicken Demon on its back and charged towards Zhou Jiuya. Then, it raised its claws, grabbed the Divine Chicken Demon's foot, and threw it at Zhou Jiuya.

"Old hen, it's up to you!" the rat shouted.

The Divine Chicken Demon tumbled in mid-air, taking a deep breath with all its might. Its lungs were instantly filled with tons of air, and its fur rippled all over its body. The last burst of destructive force gathered in its throat.

The next moment, its cheeks suddenly swelled up and its mouth opened.

The Divine Chicken Demon roared angrily at Zhou Jiuya, its high-pitched voice deafening, enough to shatter countless tall buildings!

"Roar--!!!!"

"You've been hiding this for so long, just for this one show?"

Zhou Jiuya gave a cold sneer and immediately summoned the "Wind God Thunder Drum" from the bronze drum compass. It was a pair of lacquered and gilded drums with white rhinoceros hide on the drumhead and a picture of the Wind God and Thunder God fighting on the drum body.

At the same time, this was one of the antiques he had retrieved from the White Raven Brigade at an auction in Tokyo.

The giant drum hung above the city wall, and in an instant, its surface vibrated as if an invisible giant were forcefully striking it. The drumbeats resounded, and concentric rings of loud vibrations blocked its path.

The Divine Rooster Demon's "Divine Roar" countered the drumbeats, and for a moment the Divine Rooster Demon's roar gained the upper hand.

"Well done!" the Rat Demon clenched his fist in the distance.

But the next second, a bolt of lightning shot out from the center of the Wind God Thunder Drum. Suddenly, the lightning tore through the thunderous sound and shot straight at the Divine Chicken Demon.

In an instant, the palm-sized divine chicken demon was blasted into dust by the lightning, and even its blood was obliterated in the lightning.

"No way?" The Rat Demon was stunned. "It's over. I have no way to explain. The outsider and the old chicken are both dead."

Zhou Jiuya turned his pale golden eyes to look at it.

The Rat Demon trembled and immediately turned and ran, rushing towards the battlefield on Zhong Wujiu's side.

On the other side, on the southwest side of the city wall of Sea Sail City, in a vast mountainous area outside the city wall, the Totoro Demon sat blankly on the Aries Demon's shoulder with a claw in its mouth.

The little blue cat wagged its tail, blinked its sapphire-like eyes, and looked up at the top of the wall together with the mad bull demon standing with its arms crossed in front of it.

Under the moonlit night, on the city wall, Zhong Wujiu, dressed in a black overcoat, stood alone.

"Be careful, Old Niu."

The Aries Demon dropped his fake smile and gently reminded, "Zhong Wujiu, like Zhou Jiuya and Zhuge Hui, is not allowed to contract with demons by their Heavenly Drive, so we only need to be wary of them."

They knew that most members of the Lake Hunter family, including the invisible executor "Su Wei," would not choose to contract with demons in order to maintain the "purity" of Skydrive.

Instead, they push the potential of the Skyward Exorcists to its limit in order to surpass other exorcists.

Among them, Lin Xingshi was an anomaly—she did not resist the contracted demon. Despite her elders’ repeated obstruction, she found her favorite demon in the mountains on her own and signed a contract with it without permission.

Rumor has it that the four Lake Hunters together only have two contracted demons, and these two demons live in the empty slots of Lin Xing Shi Tian Qu. She is the most unique Lake Hunter captain in history.

"I understand... I'll attack first. You can send that cat kid over as backup." As soon as he finished speaking, the Mad Bull Demon lowered its hooves, which were wrapped around its shoulders, and crashed to the ground.

"Boom!"

Amidst a series of thunderous booms, its forehooves pounded the earth, gathering strength. Cracks appeared in the ground beneath its feet, and the craters it created grew deeper and deeper.

In the end, it was as if an earthquake had struck. The Mad Bull Demon, accompanied by a raging gust of wind, unleashed all its accumulated power and charged forward like a high-speed, black iron train crashing straight into the massive city wall.

Seeing this, Zhong Wujiu calmly summoned his Heavenly Chaser, and a deep red mask appeared in his palm.

Zhong Wujiu's Heavenly Chaser is the "Twelve Beast Nuo Masks".

As the name suggests, each Nuo mask corresponds to a mythical beast recorded in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty.

Zhong Wujiu must resonate with the soul of the divine beast in order to comprehend the corresponding Nuo mask form.

Currently, he has only mastered four forms: "Xiongbo," "Boqi," "Qiangliang," and "Qiongqi." The fighting style of each form is closely related to the legends of mythical beasts.

[Xiongbo: A legendary god who can devour "evil spirits," resembling a fierce tiger.]

He donned a deep red Nuo mask embroidered with fierce tiger stripes and plummeted straight down from the city wall, standing alone in front of the Mad Bull Demon.

At this moment, the edges of his figure seemed to be outlined in a faint ink wash color.

Regardless of the size of Zhong Wujiu's movements, there would be animal-shaped ink paintings floating and swaying behind him, enough to make onlookers' vision blur as if they were drunk.

Faced with the raging bull demon charging like an avalanche, Zhong Wujiu descended from the sky and advanced instead of retreating.

In an instant, a vast expanse of ink-wash mist rose around him. The phantom of a fierce tiger, outlined in ink and with bared fangs, completely solidified behind him.

The dark figure let out a silent roar that shook the wilderness. Zhong Wujiu's palms tore through the air like tiger claws, leaving trails of ink as they did so.

"boom--!"

The phantom of the tiger's claws clashed violently with the mad bull's giant horns! The power of ink and water did not directly resist brute force, but rather, like a swamp, it softly swallowed the momentum from the mad bull's horns.

Before long, the charging momentum of the Mad Bull Demon was abruptly stopped. The power on its horns seemed to sink deeper and deeper into the sea, only to be gradually neutralized by the power of "Xiongbo".

Immediately afterwards, Zhong Wujiu used the momentum to spin around.

A whip kick, imbued with the force of ink-wash painting, swept across the mad bull's side, sending its massive body flying and crashing into a distant rock wall, sending rubble flying.

However, at that very moment, the Aries Demon suddenly threw the little blue cat sitting on its shoulder away.

The little totoro was stunned for a moment, then slowly raised its head and angrily pulled its paw out of its mouth.

In an instant, its body expanded rapidly in mid-air like an open parachute, gradually revealing the outline of a dragon, covered with layers of overlapping black scales.

"Roar--!"

The blue dragon unfurled its colossal wings, which blotted out the sky, and its dark red dragon eyes rose high. It hovered in mid-air, flapping its wings, like a giant blue bat.

Zhong Wujiu caught a glimpse of this scene out of the corner of his eye.

He immediately raised his hand to cover his face, and the Nuo mask changed, now bearing a bizarre totem resembling a hedgehog's body.

The Qiongqi, resembling an ox, is covered in stiff, hedgehog-like fur; its claws are like hooks, and its hands like saws. In mythology, it preys on the righteous while sheltering the wicked; it is a strange and malevolent beast.

At this moment, Zhong Wujiu's temperament suddenly became cunning and fierce. The ink no longer surged and rose, but instead covered his entire body like a layer of cold, hard hedgehog armor.

Each of the dark "spikes" exudes an aura of malevolence.

The Totoro Demon flapped its wings and flew towards us, gathering all its strength to swing a claw forward.

Zhong Wujiu neither dodged nor evaded, but instead deliberately met the attack head-on. Just as the dragon claw was about to touch Zhong Wujiu, the ink-black spiked armor burst forth with a blinding dark light.

"clang--!"

Amidst a deafening metallic clang, the Totoro Demon's power—enough to shake a mountain—was deflected by the seemingly fragile spiked armor!

Not only was its charge forcibly stopped, but its arms were also twisted by the force of the impact.

The sound of scales breaking was clearly audible.

The next moment, Zhong Wujiu seized the opportunity to extend his ink-black claws covered in scales. His five fingers dug into the Totoro Demon's arm like iron pincers, tearing off a large piece of scales and flesh!
Blood splattered everywhere, and the blue dragon howled in agony.

Zhong Wujiu spun around, landed slowly, and looked up at the Blue Dragon and the Mad Bull.

At this moment, the Aries Demon in the distance suddenly clasped his hands together, gathering a pure white ball of light.

The ball of light instantly dissipated into thousands of dancing sprites, scattering like stars onto the Mad Bull Demon and the Totoro Demon. Their wounds, bathed in white light, visibly healed.

In no time, the injuries Zhong Wujiu had inflicted on them were completely gone.

"Should we deal with that sheep first?"

Upon seeing this, Zhong Wujiu raised his hand to cover his face.

The Nuo mask on his head suddenly changed, transforming into a bird mask that seemed to be both sorrowful and weeping, and his temperament changed from violent to tragic. He spread out a pair of giant, ink-wash-like wings.

Like the mythical "Birch Bird," it soars beneath the night moon.

[Birch, also known as the shrike or burrowing bird. He was originally a human, but his father, misled by his stepmother's slander, killed him, and he was transformed into a Birch bird. After realizing his mistake, his father shot and killed his stepmother. Birch became a bird, but his mind remained clear, allowing him to know and eat nightmares.]

At this moment, Zhong Wujiu seemed to be suspended in mid-air as if in a nightmare, with a ghostly light flowing in the eye sockets of his Nuo mask.

At that moment, the Mad Bull Demon and the Totoro Demon suddenly felt their consciousness sink. Countless hideous and twisted fragments of consciousness, like poisonous thorns, pierced into their minds.

“Boqi, know dreams, eat dreams,” Zhong Wujiu’s lips murmured silently.

At this moment, the Mad Bull Demon's eyes were filled with bloodshot veins, and it let out a shrill roar. The Totoro Demon lay on the ground, its wings drooping to protect its body, drool constantly dripping from its mouth; it was probably dreaming of delicious food.

Zhong Wujiu bypassed the two, taking advantage of the moment to swoop down. The wing-shaped ink edges transformed into sharp blades, silently grazing the side of the Aries Demon's neck, leaving a deep ink mark.

The next instant, the Aries Demon's neck snapped off, ink stains mingling with blood.

Zhong Wujiu flapped his dark wings and slowly turned around in mid-air to look behind him.

After a while, the Mad Bull Demon and the Totoro Demon got up from the ground together.

"Aries..."

"Mad Bull Demon!" he rasped, exhaling heavily through his nostrils. Blue Dragon remained silent, lowering his head, his azure pupils as deep as the sea in the moonlight.

Seeing that the two had regrouped, Zhong Wujiu changed the form of the Nuo mask again, this time to "Qiang Liang".

He stepped forward alone, once again facing the two colossal beasts. The outer perimeter of the city wall, near the center.

The Green Serpent Demon lurked in the shadows of the bushes, the Monkey Demon climbed the mountainside, and the Rainbow Horse Demon stood in the wilderness. They raised their heads and looked at the figure on the city wall who was dressed in a long robe and mandarin jacket in the style of the Republic of China and held a folding fan.

Zhuge Hui curled his lips, looked up at the moonlight, and his eyes held a clear light like swords.

“The moonlight is truly beautiful tonight… Don’t you all think so?” He unfolded his folding fan and covered his face.

"You son of a bitch... you idiot."

The monkey demon lowered his voice and spoke lazily, as brightly colored dragon fruits suddenly appeared in his right palm.

This is the power of the Monkey Demon – the "Explosion Fruit". Inside each dragon fruit, lava flows, and the high temperature of the lava causes the skin of the dragon fruit to crack, with flames faintly escaping.

The Monkey Demon sank one hand deep into the soil of the mountain, suspending himself on the mountainside, while using the other hand to spin rapidly for leverage. He then viciously hurled the exploding fruits in his palm toward the city wall.

With one hand behind his back and the other waving his folding fan, Zhuge Hui summoned the celestial phenomena. Slender meteorites streaked across the sky and among the stars, then suddenly fell, landing precisely in front of the city wall, covering and intercepting all the explosive fruits in mid-air.

"Bam—!"

A burst of fire erupted, and then Zhuge Hui waved his folding fan again, and a Tai Chi Bagua formation suddenly formed in the sky. From the black and white Bagua formation, a rain of fire fell down, drifting and sprinkling onto the spirit monkey demon on the mountainside.

The monkey demon dragged the enormous object nimbly up the mountain, then landed in the wilderness, standing shoulder to shoulder with the rainbow horse demon, and scratched the fur on its head.

"It's up to you now, Old Ma," the monkey said lazily.

The Rainbow Horse Demon remained silent, only waving its rainbow-like tail.

A flash of rainbow light streaked across the sky, then spread across it like ink splashed on the ground. The hazy rainbow met the rain of fire and soon swallowed the torrential flames.

Moments later, apart from the location of the two zodiac demons, the remaining mountains and fields had been corroded by the flames and were barren. As far as the eye could see, there was only desolation and decay, with no sign of life for hundreds of meters.

Immediately afterwards, the rainbow horse spurred its body, transforming into a running rainbow, and soared into the air.

It charged toward Zhuge Hui, who stood atop the city wall. Zhuge Hui remained calm and unhurried. With a wave of his folding fan, a green sea of ​​bushes, thorns, and trees rose from the city wall, growing and spreading wildly, and then, like a giant hand from nature, seized the rainbow horse.

The Rainbow Horse Demon was relentless and its speed did not decrease; the rainbow light emanating from its body completely engulfed the forest.

But with each tree and thorn it devoured, the rainbow light on its surface weakened. By the time it approached Zhuge Hui, the rainbow light had completely faded, and the Rainbow Horse was left with only flesh and blood—but the power of this size was still not to be underestimated; it could easily overturn a skyscraper.

Just as Rainbow Horse was about to collide with Zhuge Hui, Zhuge Hui waved his folding fan, stirring up a nearby river. A phantom image of a Tai Chi symbol appeared on the river's surface, and then the river surged and churned upwards, forming a huge water prison in mid-air, binding Rainbow Horse within it.

"Rainbow Horse!" the monkey growled in the distance, clutching a large pile of explosive fruits in its hand, but it dared not throw them carelessly, as they might endanger its allies.

"Why bother?"

Zhuge Hui covered his face with his folding fan, tilted his head, and sighed. A Tai Chi Bagua formation rose from the ground, and then a huge, sharp earth spike shot upwards, piercing through the body of the Rainbow Horse Demon in an instant.

Blood gushed down like a waterfall from the heavens, merging with the river in the water prison, and then scattered down together, almost staining the entire city wall red.

The Rainbow Steed lost its color and was suspended in the air by the hard ground spike, unable to move.

After a while, the ground spike disappeared, and the rainbow horse plummeted from mid-air to the ground, crashing into a pool of blood, raising a cloud of dust that enveloped the mountains and fields.

"Rainbow Horse—!" the monkey shouted, his voice losing its usual languidness.

Enraged, it lowered its head and threw the explosive fruit at Zhuge Hui, but the other party waved his folding fan, and a rain of fire poured down, detonating all the fruits.

At this moment, the long-dormant Green Serpent Demon finally made its move. It snaked its way up the city wall, then shot out from the shadows, attacking Zhuge Hui with lightning speed. If its venom could be injected into the victim's body, no matter who he was, he would surely die.

"Oh? So there's another snake?" Zhuge Hui glanced at it out of the corner of his eye, twitched his lips, and waved his folding fan.

Immediately, the black and white Bagua formation appeared in mid-air, and an endless gale suddenly rose from it.

Just as the Green Serpent Demon was about to bite Zhuge Hui's back, a gust of wind stopped its body and swept it away like a piece of paper.

"So, are you still going to struggle?"

Zhuge Hui ignored the green snake that had been blown away, fanned his face with a gentle breeze, and then looked up at the furious monkey in the distance.

At the same time, right in the center of the city wall, directly in front of the huge city gate, stood a figure wearing a white shirt. Lin Xingshi had black bangs on his forehead and a bright red braid at the back of his head.

Directly opposite her were two colossal beasts of extraordinary power—the Nian Beast Lord, towering like a mountain, and the Sky Wolf, with its crimson eyes and a faint aura of rage emanating from the "Demon Crown" it wore.

The Great Lord of the Year Beast walks side by side with the Wolf of the Day.

The two enormous demons slowly raised their eyes and looked at Lin Xingshi, who was guarding the city gate.

At this moment, Lin Xingshi had one hand behind his back, and the other hand raised with his palm facing forward, slightly upturned, his face expressionless.

Tonight, she didn't wear any masculine makeup; her eyebrows were long and thin, her nose was slightly upturned, and her eyes were as clear as the blue sky.

"I'll only advise you once: take your people back to the mountains. And never set foot on human territory again." Lin Xingshi raised his head, looked at the Nian Beast King, and said expressionlessly, "Ten years ago you were no match for the Lake Hunter, and ten years from now you certainly won't be... The old, weak, sick, and disabled should be aware of their status, understand?"

The Nian Beast King suddenly laughed in a hoarse voice.

"You have no manners," it said coldly. "How dare a mere human child speak to me like that... I may be old and sick, but that doesn't mean I'll kneel down."

The Wolf of the Day remained silent, its eyes, as bright as the midnight sun, fixed on Lin Xingshi's figure.

“Then there’s nothing I can do. I’ll beat you until you come to your senses,” Lin Xingshi said calmly.

At this moment, the heavy, chilling atmosphere almost solidified into a tangible form.

Lin Xingshi stood alone, facing two enormous creatures radiating terrifying pressure.

The Nian Beast King remained silent.

The next moment, the Sky Wolf let out a deafening roar, its ferocious aura soaring into the sky. Fueled by the Demon Crown, it had lost most of its reason, acting solely on its instinct to tear its opponent apart. It pawed at the ground, emitting threatening growls, and charged towards the Awakened Lion with the force to crush everything in its path!

The Nian Beast King charged forward together. Facing the pincer attack of the two giant beasts, Lin Xingshi showed no fear.

“The stake demon,” she said calmly.

The Wooden Stake Demon was Lin Xingshi's second contracted demon. She contracted this demon in order to apply the "lion dance" skills she had learned since childhood to real combat.

In an instant, a thunderous roar shook the earth.

Countless thick, massive wooden stakes, gleaming with the luster of ancient wood grain, rose from the ground and were precisely and densely planted within a radius of 150 meters.

In an instant, the contracted demon laid out a solemn and imposing "lion dance wooden formation" across the wilderness.

This is precisely the power of the "Wooden Stake Demon" in the Lin Xing Shi contract.

The tops of the wooden stakes are not flat, but rather vary in height, as if following the trajectory of some celestial constellation.

Lin Xingshi calls this the "Seven Star Plum Blossom Stakes". Hidden at the base of the stakes are rows of peach wood nails that gleam with a cold light.

The moment the wooden array was completed, Lin Xingshi's aura also changed. At this moment, she summoned the Heavenly Chaser - "South Sea Fire Scale Head", a lion's head forged from the keel of a sunken ship in the South China Sea and volcanic glass, containing seventy-two fire-resistant cloth talismans.

But after years of honing her skills, Lin Xingshi has now completely merged with Tianqu. Therefore, her Tianqu did not appear in a physical form, but instead transformed into a fiery red lion shadow that rose from behind her.

This is like "the fusion of the Mysterious Envoy and the Generation-level Mysterious Envoy," which is the highest level of exorcists using "Sky Drive."

The next moment, the lion shadow had fully taken shape. Behind Lin Xingshi, light and shadow surged, and a huge, solid lion shadow, as magnificent as burning fire glass, suddenly appeared, awe-inspiring.

Although the Crimson Lion Shadow was not as large as the Great Lord and the Sky Wolf, and was even several times smaller, it subtly overshadowed them in terms of imposing presence.

Lin Xingshi took a deep breath.

With a light tap of her foot, Lion Shadow landed precisely on the top of the tallest wooden stake. Lin Xing Shi herself seemed to be in perfect harmony with Lion Shadow; her movements were Lion Shadow's movements.

Using the "Treading on the Lotus" movement technique, she nimbly leaped and bounded among the undulating wooden stakes, carrying a huge lion shadow.

Like a peerless lion dancer, performing a thrilling "Breaking the Formation Dance," yet the dance steps concealed deadly intent.

The wolf of the daytime pounced wildly but missed its target. Its massive wolf body was difficult to fully utilize in the dense array of wooden stakes. It clumsily crashed into a few stakes, but was instead pierced by the peach wood nails, causing it to roar in anger.

The demonic flames above the head of the Nian Beast King blazed wildly. It swung its giant claws, the tips of which stirred up a purplish-red curtain of flames. Even the strong wind it generated could easily shatter a rocky mountain. However, the lion shadow stepped on the wooden stake beside it and easily dodged it with a nimble movement.

"Bam—!"

The heavy claws slammed into the wooden stake. Wood chips flew everywhere, but they failed to harm the lion's shadow in the slightest.

On this wooden array, Lin Xingshi holds an absolute advantage in skill. She began learning lion dancing from a young age under the guidance of her family. Day after day, this girl wears an old lion head and leaps on the wooden stakes.

Every day, she faces hundreds and thousands of wooden stakes, with only one thought in her mind: this time, she must jump higher, more steadily, and farther on the stakes. And the result of more than ten years of continuous effort day and night is her agile body that gives her an overwhelming advantage in battle, as well as lightning-fast reflexes.

At that moment, the crimson lion shadow stepped onto the topmost wooden stake, looking down from above. Its massive body, combined with the exquisite steps of the lion dance, suppressed the instinctive brute force of the two giant beasts with unimaginable agility.

Suddenly, the lion-like figure leaped forward, its powerful and massive paws landing on the shoulders and back of the Sky Wolf. The already formidable force, combined with the downward momentum, caused the wolf to stagger.

The wolf of daylight crashed into the array of wooden stakes, sending up a shower of barbs from the peach wood nails. It howled in pain, and a waterfall of drool cascaded down its muzzle.

Lin Xingshi didn't give it a chance to breathe. The lion shadow turned around, swung its indestructible giant lion head, and with a thunderous roar, slammed it into the side of the wolf's mouth.

The Nian Beast King arrived to provide support, his massive body smashing through several wooden stakes as he surrounded the area from the corner.

"Too slow, old man."

Lin Xingshi caught a glimpse of this scene out of the corner of his eye and sneered.

She moved with the lion's shadow, advancing instead of retreating, and then flipped over with a kick.

At this moment, the lion shadow displayed astonishing flexibility. With its hind paws planted on the top of another wooden stake as a fulcrum, it twisted its waist and, with its thick and powerful forelimbs, like the legendary "lion dance kick," delivered a vicious kick to the chest and abdomen of the Nian Beast King with the force enough to crush a tall building!
This kick was not only powerful and fierce, but also contained the subtle power of lion dance footwork.

Even though the Nian Beast King was thick-skinned and tough, he couldn't help but groan as he was kicked, staggering back several steps and collapsing several wooden stakes under his feet, losing his footing.

Illuminated by the crimson firelight, the fierce lion's shadow nimbly leaped and twisted on the plum blossom wooden stakes, displaying extraordinary agility. At times it soared high into the air, unleashing a fierce gust of wind from its claws; at other times it crouched low, striking with a powerful blow.

On the wilderness, the howls of wolves and the roars of the Nian beast tore through the night, only to be immediately drowned out by the dull thud of wooden stakes shattering, the sounds as dense as a torrential rain never ceasing.

With its lion dance techniques and combat skills perfectly combined with wooden stake formations, Lin Xing Shi firmly held the triple advantage of footwork, terrain, and technique on the vast wooden stake field.

These two colossal beasts, far larger than themselves, were suppressed by her, forced to retreat in disarray.

A crimson lion stood atop the top wooden stake, looking down arrogantly at the two giant beasts.

"I feel really guilty," Lin Xingshi said. "Let's get rid of you guys quickly."

As soon as he finished speaking, the lion-like figure sprang out from the wooden stake beneath its feet, its massive body transforming into a streak of crimson flames, rapidly circling around the Nian Beast King.

The Wolf of the Day was enveloped in a blazing white light, arriving like a shooting star.

However, at this moment, the crimson lion shadow's tail swept out, striking the claws of the Sky Wolf as it pounced again, forcing the Sky Wolf's attack to slow down slightly.

Seizing the opportunity, the crimson lion shadow used the recoil to flip over in mid-air, shaking off the white wolf.

In mid-air, the lion's shadow first lashed its long tail, sending up a shower of broken wood that stretched like a curtain before the pursuing Sky Wolf. Then, it used its hind paws to stomp on half of the broken wooden stake that was spinning in the air—

"Oh!"

The moment the wooden stake shattered, the lion's shadow descended from the sky, hanging upside down, heading straight for the figure of the Nian Beast King.

"Roar--!"

With its head held high, the lion let out a clear, long roar, crashing into the Nian Beast King amidst a curtain of flames. The king roared, its body shattering countless wooden stakes and sinking deep into the ground, bleeding profusely, unable to rise again.

"Get one."

As he spoke, Lin Xingshi clapped his hands, causing the lion shadow to return to the wooden stake once again.

She turned to look at the Sky Wolf and raised an eyebrow.

"No wonder he can take so many beatings, it's because of that helmet." At this moment, Lin Xingshi's gaze fell on the "Demon Crown" on the head of the Sky Wolf.

The Demon Crown is a treasure that White Wolf obtained in the Whale Kingdom along with the White Raven Brigade, and it is also the reason why its strength was forcibly elevated to the Calamity level.

Under Lin Xingshi's control, the crimson lion shadow suddenly lowered its body, its four paws gripping the top of the wooden stake, poised to pounce, like a taut bow.

Through the gaps in the mane that swayed like flames, the crown atop the Sky Wolf's head, radiating a black light, was clearly visible.

"Isn't this the same as winning the championship?"

Lin Xingshi suddenly laughed.

The so-called "capturing the green" is the most exciting part of the lion dance performance.

The lion dancers need to manipulate the lion's head to leap onto a high pole and remove the "green garland" hanging at the top—usually made of lettuce or red envelopes to symbolize good fortune.

This tests not only the lion dancer's agility in leaping over the stakes, but also their skill in accurately seizing the target; it is a perfect combination of bravery and dexterity.

At this moment, the demonic crown atop the Sky Wolf's head appeared to Lin Xingshi like a "blue hue" hanging high above the pole.

Lin Xingshi closed his eyes and took a deep breath. When he opened his eyes again, a slight smile appeared on his lips.

She stomped hard on the wooden stake, her fiery red braid flying wildly, and the lion's shadow shot towards the wolf's head like an arrow.

Immediately afterwards, the giant lion phantom twisted its body in mid-air, its jaws precisely seizing the edge of the demon crown. Using the momentum, it swung its head and yanked!
"Tsk-!"

The black crown was ripped from the head of the Sky Wolf. The crown, radiating black light, was now held in the lion's jaws, its dim glow flickering in the crimson lion's mouth.

At this moment, Lin Xingshi, carrying this trophy, landed lightly back on the top of the stake, just as naturally as she had used her lion head to catch the swaying colorful ball in her hands during countless training sessions.

"Still not giving up?" Lin Xingshi said, "You have completely lost your chance of winning."

After saying that, she manipulated the Lion Shadow to spit the Demon Crown onto the ground some distance away.

At this moment, the Sky Wolf's momentum suddenly diminished, and it collapsed to the ground with a mournful howl. Its muscles and claws withered rapidly, and its pupils turned gray.

Meanwhile, the Nian Beast King was already deeply trapped in the pit, panting heavily, unable to struggle any longer.

Lin Xingshi silently looked at the Nian Beast King, "Ten years ago, you killed my parents, and I let you live for so long. Killing you now shouldn't be too much, right?"

After she finished speaking, her eyes suddenly turned cold.
Just as she was about to control the Lion Shadow to end the Great Lord's life, she suddenly saw a blue snake swooping down, like a moth drawn to a flame, shooting towards the Lion Shadow.

Lin Xingshi casually swung her right arm, and the lion-like figure roared as it turned and struck out with its right palm, grabbing the snake. Instant flames engulfed its entire body.

The Azure Serpent Demon roared, its face contorted in a ferocious grimace, every inch of its scales rapidly corroded by crimson flames. It narrowed its icy blue eyes, staring at the Nian Beast Lord, seemingly wanting to say something, but unable to utter a sound.

"Green Snake..."

The Nian Beast King was startled, his eyes widening as he looked at the green snake held in the lion's paw.

Lin Xingshi was silent for a moment, then said, "Why bother?"

At that moment, she slightly reduced her strength, and the Green Serpent Demon was sent flying dozens of meters away by Lion Shadow's palm strike. Its charred corpse smashed through countless plants and trees before finally sinking into the churning mud.

"Isn't it the same?"

She murmured to herself, slowly maneuvering the lion shadow across the wooden stake, approaching the Nian Beast Lord step by step.

"Were my parents this desperate when you killed them?" she asked.

The Nian Beast King remained silent in his rage. In the distance, the Sky Wolf had transformed into human form, collapsing amidst a cloud of steam thick with blood. At that moment, the world fell into utter silence.

It glanced at the corpse of the green snake, then at the white wolf, and finally at the rainbow horse demon lying paralyzed on the ground in the distance. The demonic flame above its head slowly dimmed.

A moment later, the king lowered his head.

“Oh, I’ve lost…” it said hoarsely. “That’s right, I should have accepted my age long ago. What was I struggling for?”

Lin Xingshi stood on the wooden stake with his arms crossed, looking down at it.

She remained silent, her eyes devoid of any pity.

Lin Xingshi didn't know what she was hesitating about, even though the person in front of her was the enemy who had killed her parents. After a moment of silence, she slowly manipulated the lion shadow to move its body, and her whole body burst into flames.

But at that very moment, a bewitching figure in purplish-red suddenly descended from the sky atop the cliffs of Haifan Mountain in the distance.

Lin Xingshi was stunned for a moment, then slowly raised her head. At that moment, in her clear pupils, a huge purplish-red lion appeared out of nowhere, bathed in moonlight, its roar shattering the sky.

With a raging sea breeze, that alluring figure, like a blooming datura flower, suddenly swooped down under the night moon.

"Let my dad go!"

The little Nian beast attacked with purple flames, growling softly.

Lin Xingshi stared at the massive shadow plummeting like a shooting star, then froze in place. After a moment, her lips moved slightly, uttering a name that was both strange and familiar:

"Xiao Nian?"

(End of this chapter)